Indigenous literature & writers
Articles
- Terms of Ambivalence: Cultural Politics and Symbolic Exchange
This essay initiates a conversation with the work of Penny van Toorn, specifically two essays—'Discourse/Patron Discourse: How Minority Texts Command the Attention of Majority Audiences'…
1 November 2010 - An Indian without a Country
At heart, this essay attempts to render some ‘lines’ for a short story that speaks to the ‘yes, but no’ of Indigenous citizenship…
1 June 2009 - Review of Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self,' Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand, edited by Franrçoise Kral
This little yellow publication looks like a relic from another age. The collection seems to belong in the eighties. Of course conference proceedings are a…
1 May 2006 - Review of Black Words, White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 by Adam Shoemaker
A white critic of black subjects is in a difficult position when confronted with Mudrooroo Narogin's (Colin Johnson's) view that 'only Aborigines can really write…
1 May 1990 - Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
Phillip Mead discusses ‘two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary…
1 November 2013 - ‘Cutting off the Head of the King’: Sovereignty, Feudalism, Fantasy
Australian adult fantasy fiction of the last fifteen years has been significant in its volume, penetration, and international success. Perhaps paradoxically, these texts are notable…
1 October 2011 - Review of Entangled Subjects: Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity, by Michele Grossman
Entangled Subjects is a radical and comprehensive work of scholarship that is part of Rodopi's Cross Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English…
1 June 2014 - Re-Imagining Indigenous Australia through the Short Story: Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven
In 1998 Michelle Grossman’s overview of Indigenous women’s writing explored the significant contribution that life writing had made to the country’s literatures and pondered where…
2 November 2018 - Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
This article proposes a reading of Alexis Wright’s epic novel Carpentaria that focuses on the mine and its impacts as central to any understanding of…
29 October 2020
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